Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI), with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are analyzing fibrillin-1 mutations to determine the causes of zonule fiber detachment…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Retinal videos are just as effective as standard still retinal images for detecting diabetic retinopathy, according to results of a comparative study of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a head-to-head trial, latanoprost proved to be noninferior to timolol in the treatment of glaucoma in children, according to a report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using intra-arterial chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma can produce a “dramatic response,” but also comes with the risk of both mild and severe side…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Wide variations in intraocular pressure (IOP) in glaucoma patients is associated with more progressive visual field loss, according to a report from the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with type 2 diabetes without retinopathy can be safely screened for sight-threatening vision problems every 3 years instead of every 1 or…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a phase 2 study of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), intravitreal injections of the vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor, VEGF Trap-Eye,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Eye drops containing lubricants, corticosteroids, cyclosporine, or autologous serum improve dry eye symptoms associated with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), according to a literature review.…
Marilyn Mann, OD, of Comprehensive Eye Care in Valley Cottage, NY, interviews Terry Peterson, Senior Sales Executive for Carl Zeiss Meditec, regarding the Cirrus HD-OCT, the most advanced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) –Tetracycline ointment should not be replaced by povidone iodine solution as prophylactic therapy for ophthalmia neonatorum, according to a study from Israel published in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Measurements of intraocular pressure (IOP) may depend on which eye is measured first, according to a new study published in the Archives of…
